5:06 PM
San Diego County completed the San Vicente pipeline, which will provide San Diego with fresh water if a major earthquake or other disaster cuts off our water supply. San Diego gets 90% of its water from sources thousands of miles away, so this pipeline is part of a $1.5 bil project to provide San Diego county with water for up to 6 months if needed. San Diego's 2 primary sources of water (Colorado river and San Joaquin-Sacramento river delta) are apparently beginning to dry up, not a great thing as the population increases:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/17/key-segment-completed-major-water-pipeline/
North Carolina science panel is predicting that their sea level will rise by 1 meter by 2100, which puts 2,000 square miles of their coastline in danger because they are a meter or less above sea level! The land that could end up under water is some of their state's most expensive real estate, worth a total of almost $7 bil. They already had to move a famous Lighthouse due to an 8-inch rise in sea levels:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/rising-sea-waters-threaten-north-carolinas-delicate-coastline
Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month, part of a project that has a team of 6 including 3 Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Columbian, and a Chinese man. The team of 6 has been locked inside of a mock spaceship in Russia since June:
http://www.asdnews.com/news/33077/Space_crew_to_simulate_Mars_walk_next_month.htm
The 6-man crew has been locked inside windowless capsules for 233 days so far of their 520-day mock flight to Mars. This simulated Mars mission allows for scientists to help prepare for real space crews in the future to deal with the confinement and stress of traveling to another planet:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/01/Space-520-day-flight-simulation-nears-landing-on-Mars/
People in the US are increasingly using dangerous chemicals to commit suicide, which puts first responders at risk by exposing them to the dangerous chemicals. It also costs more taxpayer money because hazmat team materials are expensive to replace and removing contaminated vehicles requires a private company to be hired:
http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2011/01/17/news/local/news114.txt
Yellowstone's supervolcano just took a deep "breath", causing miles of ground to rise. Each of Yellowstone's past major eruptions have been 1000x more powerful than the Mount St. Helen's 1980 eruption. The 25-mile by 37-mile has been raised as much as 10 inches above where the ground used to be in places:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110119-yellowstone-park-supervolcano-eruption-magma-science/
China is planning to merge the 9 cities that are around the Pearl river Delta into one HUGE city with 42 million people! The city will be 16,000 square miles (26x larger than Greater London) and the infrastructure projects to do this will cost $303 billion! A rail line will connect the megacity with Hong Kong:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8278315/China-to-create-largest-mega-city-in-the-world-with-42-million-people.html
It is nice that Android and Apple devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) will be able to print to any local printer with Gmail and Google Docs:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/01/cloud-printing-on-go.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/17/key-segment-completed-major-water-pipeline/
North Carolina science panel is predicting that their sea level will rise by 1 meter by 2100, which puts 2,000 square miles of their coastline in danger because they are a meter or less above sea level! The land that could end up under water is some of their state's most expensive real estate, worth a total of almost $7 bil. They already had to move a famous Lighthouse due to an 8-inch rise in sea levels:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/rising-sea-waters-threaten-north-carolinas-delicate-coastline
Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month, part of a project that has a team of 6 including 3 Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Columbian, and a Chinese man. The team of 6 has been locked inside of a mock spaceship in Russia since June:
http://www.asdnews.com/news/33077/Space_crew_to_simulate_Mars_walk_next_month.htm
The 6-man crew has been locked inside windowless capsules for 233 days so far of their 520-day mock flight to Mars. This simulated Mars mission allows for scientists to help prepare for real space crews in the future to deal with the confinement and stress of traveling to another planet:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/01/Space-520-day-flight-simulation-nears-landing-on-Mars/
People in the US are increasingly using dangerous chemicals to commit suicide, which puts first responders at risk by exposing them to the dangerous chemicals. It also costs more taxpayer money because hazmat team materials are expensive to replace and removing contaminated vehicles requires a private company to be hired:
http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2011/01/17/news/local/news114.txt
Yellowstone's supervolcano just took a deep "breath", causing miles of ground to rise. Each of Yellowstone's past major eruptions have been 1000x more powerful than the Mount St. Helen's 1980 eruption. The 25-mile by 37-mile has been raised as much as 10 inches above where the ground used to be in places:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110119-yellowstone-park-supervolcano-eruption-magma-science/
China is planning to merge the 9 cities that are around the Pearl river Delta into one HUGE city with 42 million people! The city will be 16,000 square miles (26x larger than Greater London) and the infrastructure projects to do this will cost $303 billion! A rail line will connect the megacity with Hong Kong:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8278315/China-to-create-largest-mega-city-in-the-world-with-42-million-people.html
It is nice that Android and Apple devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) will be able to print to any local printer with Gmail and Google Docs:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/01/cloud-printing-on-go.html